POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Oh what joy! : Re: Oh what joy! Server Time
7 Sep 2024 15:27:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Oh what joy!  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 26 Jun 2008 14:03:05
Message: <4863d9d9@news.povray.org>
"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4863d8d1$1@news.povray.org...
> Darren New wrote:
>
> > Depends how erased it is, of course. Your boss might not know that you
> > know how to erase a drive correctly. :)
>
> My boss might not know that there's more than one way to "erase" a drive.
>
> OOC... how much does it cost to recover data from a drive that has had
> zeros written to every single byte on the drive? Any estimates?

LOTS. Even recovering from logical failure is Expensive.
I investigated drive recovery after a damaged partition table and a defrag
shuffles sectors of one partition over a second parition. Even to recover 2
directories was far more than I could afford


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